2014 Monismith Lecture: Marshall Thompson: M-E Flexible Pavement Design: Issues and Challenges

Marshall Thompson of the University of Illinois delivered the 2014 Carl Monismith Lecture in June 2014. His lecture was titled "M-E Flexible Pavement Design: Issues and Challenges."

The ASCE Geo-Institute (G-I) has established a Lecture in recognition of Professor Carl L. Monismith's contribution to Pavement Engineering. Professor Monismith's teaching and research career in pavement technology, at the University of California, Berkeley, spans more than 50 years. Throughout this period, he has mentored numerous graduate students who have disseminated advances in pavement technology around the world.

The C. L. Monismith Lecture will be awarded annually for outstanding research contributions in Pavement Engineering.

Dr. Thompson retired in 1996, but remains active in research and academic activities at Illinois and is a consultant. He held various staff positions at the University of Illinois in research, teaching and administration; had field experience with Illinois Division of Highways and contractors; and has accumulated extensive consulting experience in airfield and highway pavements, soils and materials, and railroads, for various governmental/DOD agencies, consultants, industry, and contractors.

His major fields of interest are flexible pavement analysis, design and construction; paving materials; subgrade soils and subgrade stability; soil/material stabilization; and concrete pavement rehabilitation (RUBBLIZATION).

He has published over 210 technical journal papers, bulletins, and research reports.

Professor Thompson is active in several professional societies and groups, including: Transportation Research Board (Emeritus Member of Committee AFD80-Strength and Deformation Characteristics of Pavement Sections and Committee AFS80-Cementitious Stabilization; and a past member of Committee AFD60-Flexible Pavement Design), ASCE, AAPT, and International Society for Asphalt Pavements (Founding Member) .

Dr. Thompson was the IL Asphalt Paving Association's "Man of the Year" in 1995, received the Ronald D. Kenyon Research and Education Award from NAPA (National Asphalt Paving Association) in 1997, received the AFTRE (Aggregates Foundation for Technology, Research, and Education - National Stone Association/National Aggregates Association) Distinguished Research Award in 1998, and in 2000 received the Transportation Research Board's K. B. Woods Award for the outstanding technical paper (Hot Mix Asphalt Overlay Design for Rubblized PCC Pavements) in the field of design and construction of transportation facilities. He was the lead author of the Best Paper Award (Concepts for Developing a Mechanistic-Empirical Based ACN Procedure for New Generation Aircraft) presented at the 2006 ISAP Conference. He was elected to the NAPA Hot Mix Asphalt Hall of Fame in 2005. In 2012, Dr. Thompson received the Asphalt Institute’s Distinguished Service Award.

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